Serial Killers in Fact and Fiction Five of the best serial killer thrillers – Margaret Murphy, “write” arm of Ashley Dyer Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs must surely take pole position on any list of serial killer novels. Harris researched the background meticulously, including talking to FBI agents Robert Ressler and John Douglas, originators […]
If you’re addicted to crime dramas, then you’ll want to check out Chris Chan’s DVD Review of Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer. “Message drama” is the bane of many television crime dramas. Not to name names, but many TV shows routinely produce subpar episodes when they decide to address a hot-button issue. […]
10 Thrillers That NEED a TV Series Adaptation Like a lot of people these days, I’m addicted to book-to-television thrillers. Every time I learn that another novel I love has been green-lighted for a series, I devour every detail about its production until it’s finally on-screen. With the recent success of shows like Big Little […]
Sara Gran Interviewed Our Relationship with the Truth: An Interview with Sara Gran Alexandra Dos Santos Sara Gran is a mystery, thriller, and horror novelist from Brooklyn, New York. She currently resides in Los Angeles, where she continues to write for both the page and screen. She’s worked on the series Southland, Berlin Station, […]
Five Tips for Writing a Suspense Novel The pops of an old house settling. The creak of a door. The haunting silence of being alone. These are some of my favorite sounds, so choosing to write suspense wasn’t a stretch for me when I decided to give penning a novel a go. Over the years, […]
The VERY Fine Line Between Fiction and Reality… I’ve been obsessed with true-crime books since I read Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi as a twelve-year-old. (For the one person out there who doesn’t know, the book is about the 1969 Charles Manson murders.) I grew up in the suburbs of Denver and it was […]
You’ve read Nordic, dabbled with Tartan, but what about Sunburnt Noir? Recently, a few crime writers and readers on Twitter had a stab at coming up with a snappy identifier for Australian crime fiction. My contribution was Sunburnt, but other suggestions included Gum Leaf and Kangaroo, with the impressive-sounding Noir Australis suggested by a crime […]
Undisclosed Files of the Police: Cases from the Archives of the NYPD from 1831 to the Present by Bernard Whalen, Philip Messing, and Robert Mladinich (Hardcover) More than a century’s worth of atrocities culled from the city’s police blotter, told through startling, rarely seen images and incisive text written by two NYPD officers and a […]
From outside its main gates, the jail looked like an abandoned car-repair shop. It had razor wire on the perimeter walls but, then again, just about every wall in the city of David, Panama, is topped by rings of razor wire. There was a line of visiting women, a few of them holding parasols. I saw a […]
Ten Books Books That Will Explain Current Strife in the World I write military counter-terrorism thrillers, which, by design, have to parse the world into neat shades of black and white, with perhaps a touch of gray thrown in. My protagonist, Pike Logan, has to have a clear antagonist and must solve the problem all […]